MANUEL ORTIZ masterpiece!!!!

A customer/father of one of my friends painted this in 1980, and won first place at a show 3 years ago......now its hanging up in my office

anyways...this is special to me cause manuel ortiz was a few of my friends grandpa, and grew up in my city....crazy how none of his grandkids took up boxing...all were great athletes, but played mostly b-ball, and baseball....

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Manuel Ortiz (boxer)

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Manuel OrtizStatisticsReal nameManuel OrtizRated at[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight"]Lightweight[/ame]
[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Featherweight"]Featherweight[/ame]
[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantamweight"]Bantamweight[/ame]Height5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)Reach66 in (168 cm)NationalityAmericanBorn(1916-07-02)July 2, 1916
Corona, CaliforniaDiedMay 31, 1970(1970-05-31) (aged 53)Stance[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_stance"]Orthodox[/ame]Boxing recordTotal fights130Wins99Wins by KO53Losses28Draws3No contests0Manuel Ortiz (born, July 2, 1916. died, May 31, 1970.) was one of the very best boxers of the 1940s, and was named to Ring Magazine's list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years. In 1996, he was inducted into the [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Boxing_Hall_of_Fame"]International Boxing Hall of Fame[/ame].[1]
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• 1 Amateur career
• 2 Professional career
• 3 Outside the Ring
• 4 References
• 5 External links

[edit] Amateur career

Ortiz, who was of [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_American"]Mexican American[/ame] descent, started an amateur career in 1937.[2] Within a year, Ortiz won the Southern California Amateur Flyweight Title, the [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gloves"]Golden Gloves[/ame] Title, and the National AAU title in Boston. He also defeated Chief Lopez, who was an Olympic runner-up, and Bobby Hagar (father of former Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar) twice. In their first fight, Ortiz decked Hagar 17 times. In their second match, Ortiz decked Hager twenty times.
[edit] Professional career

Ortiz turned pro in 1938 and in 1942 won the World Bantamweight Title by beating [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Salica"]Lou Salica[/ame]. He defended the title 15 times before losing to [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Dade"]Harold Dade[/ame] in 1947. He regained the title in a rematch later in the year, and defended the title five more times before losing the belt to [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Toweel"]Vic Toweel[/ame] in 1950. He retired 5 years later in 1955.
[edit] Outside the Ring

• Ortiz made a very brief appearance in a gym scene in the 1947 movie Killer McCoy.
• Ortiz served in the U.S. Army.
• Ortiz died from cirrhosis of the liver after a long illness in 1970.
• Ortiz is the very first boxer in the prominent boxing online database on Boxrec.com, having the Global ID number of simply "1".[1]

 

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